Week 5 Gambling Lines

I caught some flak for my high brow Hunger Games literary reference last week, so this week I’ll be turning over my duties to my favorite authors.  Why? I’m lazy, I’m a spiteful S.O.B., and today is the day of my birth, so no one can tell me what to do.  Pick eight out of nine correctly for a free pitcher of beer at Luckie’s!

Rumspringa (-5.5) over JKI

“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”

–Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay

Moose Knuckles (-1.5) over Foul Balls

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

–Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

5 O’Clockers (-1.5) over Jagger-nats

“Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.” –David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

JFK (-0.5) over Free Ballin’

“You're either on the bus or off the bus.”

–Tom Wolfe, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

PBJ (-1.5) over New Kickheads on the Block

“Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.”

–Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs

Kick Ass (-0.5) over Burning Bridges

"And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels..."

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Shake n’ Bake (-2.5) over Battlestar Ballsacktica

“The only way out is in.”

–Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Chubby Gangsters (-3.0) over Chicken Tetrazzini

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

–Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Kick Ass (-7.5) over New Kickheads on the Block

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”

-Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

And one for the author of this blog post:

“Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.”

–Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn